Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1975
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Posted - 2015.06.27 22:11:54 -
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Now that the dust has settled, here is the text of the speech I delivered in Sarum Prime shortly before the Drifters attacked our peaceful gathering. I think that these words are at least as relevant now as they were before the attack:
Thank you Lieutenant Main and thank you to Cardinal Dex for inviting me to me to speak here today.
Twelve years is a long time so my heartfelt congratulations go out to the CVA on their twelfth anniversary.
Whilst I wasn't a capsuleer when the CVA was first formed, I was honoured to be with Admiral Kominski when he submitted the documents to Concord for formal recognition of the alliance a few months later. It was a proud day for all those present.
Since then I've lost count of the number of times that I've been written off, that PIE has been written off, or that the Amarr Bloc as a whole has been written off.
And yet here we all are whilst many of those who were doing the writing off have faded into memory. To all the pilots who have served the Empire indefatigably over the years: I salute your loyalty.
But what is loyalty?
Let me give you an example of what I think it means.
There are some people, and I think that you've all met someone like this, who only support the Empire when it suits them. That's not loyalty. That's opportunism.
Now here's something: I don't get to choose who sits on the throne. Neither do any of you. The various capsuleers who over the years have proclaimed themselves as the one true Emperor: they certainly don't get to choose who leads the Empire.
No, it's God who gets to choose and God makes His views known to those best suited to hear them. In other words, we need to listen to the views of the Privy Council and the Theology Council and they both support Empress Jamyl.
Who are we to question them?
I've previously worked with the Speakers of Truth and during that period I had some lengthy discussions with Brother Joshua about their work, so I have a pretty good idea of how the order operates.
Let me tell you something: if there was any doubt about the Empress' legal or spiritual legitimacy somebody would have taken the case to the Speakers, and the Speakers would have investigated.
So we can take the lack of an investigation to imply that there is no need for an investigation.
Now what this means is that if you disagree with the Empress' right to lead us, then you also disgree with every part of the imperial apparatus. You disagree with the legal and theological establishments, and you disagree with the planetary administrations, with the military and with the civil service. And you also disagree with the billions of hard working families who understand that what they give to the Empire will be returned to them and who have accepted Jamyl as their Empress.
I don't see how someone can be opposed to the entire Empire and yet still claim that they are loyal to the Empire.
No, you can only be loyal to the Empire by serving the Empire faithfully no matter the cost.
Just as I supported the Emperors Heideran VII and Doriam II, I support Empress Jamyl - not because it benefits me but because it benefits the Empire and it benefits wider humanity.
So I call upon all those gathered here today, and those Amarrians who are further afield, to look deep into their hearts.
Because there they will find the knowledge that the only by being loyal to the Empire will they find the best reward of all - a victorious Amarr.
Amarr Victor.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
1976
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Posted - 2015.06.27 22:21:07 -
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Rodj Blake wrote:No, you can only be loyal to the Empire by serving the Empire faithfully no matter the cost.
We lost a lot of good people in the battle today. They and their families have made a sacrifice in the name of loyalty, and they will not be forgotten.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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